hello. i'm ana cabrera in new york of the right now we're awaiting a press conference with the family of gabby petito. we know show was killed, but exactly how she died still a mystery. her fiance still missing, but we're hearing from his family today as well. the fbi has an arrest warrant for brian laundrie, but they have scaled back the search today. more on this as soon as that news conference gets under way. we will go there live. we are also monitoring the testimony on capitol hill.

the defense second and top generals appearing to contradict president biden in their very first senate grilling on the chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan. the officials questions today all involved in planning, executing and now explaining the end of america's longest war, and for general milley he was also asked about the tumultuous final days of donald trump's presidency and he said several people in trump's inner circle knew about his controversial phone calls with china so lots to discuss with our political and military analysts and reporters. i want to start with you, lieutenant general mark hertling. two of the top u.s. military officials testified today that they individuals keeping 2,500 to 3,500 troops in afghanistan. they told the president that was best. the president didn't go with his generals' advice. what's your reaction to this? >> it's not a surprise, ana. i think the president makes the decision based on what he wants to do, and certainly the

secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chiefs and the combatant commander in the theater can offer advice about what they think is necessary in the country and he can return by saying no, so it -- it was a little troublesome to know that the president has made remarks about not having that kind of advice from the key military leaders because i think anybody that -- that has either been in or served in afghanistan knows that most military leaders would have suggested that, at least as a covers action. one of the several courses of actions they gave them. >> sure. let's play the sound that you're referring to. president biden was asked about the advice that he got regarding 2,500 to 3,500 troops, and here's what he told abc's george stephanopoulos in the days following out of this end to the war. >> so no one told you -- your military advisers did not tell you, no, we shouldn't keep 2,500 troops, it's been a stable situation for last several

years. nobody said that to you? >> no, nobody said that to me as far as i can recall. >> gloria, president biden obviously contradicted it appears what his generals said today. >> right. i think it's a real problem for them to say this publicly, that, yes, they said keep -- keep 2,500 troops, but it isn't a surprise that joe biden would reject their advice because if you look at the history of joe biden and his relationships with generals, it's always been a little bit fraught and even when he was in the obama administration. he and obama played good cop, bad cop. he was against the surge in afghanistan, you will recall and so it probably came as no surprise to the generals when the president now finally president got the opportunity to say let's get out of there and let's get out of there cleanly and i don't want anyone left. >> right. but gloria, the point here is -- >> credibility. >> president biden said nobody

told him this. >> right. >> the point is credibility. >> and the generals are saying the opposite. >> right, and that's something that the president will have to address. i mean the generals were very reluctant, you know, i don't like to discuss my private conversations with the president, but then they said to the senators, but this is what i would say, right, so it's very obvious that this is what they told jo biden. i think that's a question he has to be asked, and i think it's a question he has to answer. >> forgive me for interrupting. we're now going live to the press conference with the family of gabby petito. >> i just wanted to say thank you to everybody that we encountered out in western wirnlgs all the law enforcement agencies out there and across the country for doing an amazing job with locating gabby. especially i want to thank the teton county search-and-rescue

team who is an all-volunteer agency that come together. they are highly trained, and they were a part of that mission to find gabby, and they did an unbelievable job. we're so grateful for everybody out there. they were -- they were second to none. they one believable, and we are forever grateful for that. and everybody back home who helped us as well. it was -- it was amazing that we were able to get her and we're just happy to have her. >> i would actually like to thank all you guys, ladies and gentlemen of the media, press, especially the people that are behind the cameras, all right. they don't get enough credit for what it is that they do, so i do appreciate all them, social media has been amazing. so i would just like to thank everyone for that. it's greatly appreciated. that was very helpful in bringing our daughter home so thank you very much.

>> i don't think we can thank everybody enough. i really want to thank the aware foundation and we help the missing for putting her poster out there. it reached over 2 million people within 48 hours. it was all over the world, and i especially want to thank detective tracy berry of the fifth precinct here because without her we don't know when this would even have happened. she got the ball rolling. she's my angel, and i thank her the most. thank you. >> at this time we'll be taking questions. >> the market justiceforgabby has been trending. what does justice for gabby look like from here on? >> want me to answer that? >> yeah. >> justice for gabby is that we

see justice for her home side. the fbi has classified her death a homicide. they are the premiere agency in the country. they are investigating her death, and we believe through their investigation we will have just physical for gabby. >> rick. >> yes. >> we haven't heard from the laundrie family. we haven't been able to hear much from the fbi. they can't share a lot with us about brian's whereabouts. is there anything that you can tell us about the efforts to find him, what the family thinks about where he might be and the laundrie family's silence? >> again, for the laund roy's silence, laundries did not help us find gabby of the they are sure as heck are not going to help us find brian. for brian, we're asking you to turn yourself in to the fbi to the fbi or the nearest law enforcement agency. >> yesterday the laundrie family released statement saying that mr. and mrs. laundrie are not

helping brian get away and hide. do you believe them? >> that's for the fbi to investigate. i believe that they are the preeminent law enforcement organization in this country, and i know they are investigating all avenues of this case. >> rick. >> yes. >> you touched on trusting the fbi here. does it bother the family at all that brian laundrie is still not named at a suspect in gabby's disappearance? >> the parents are 100% happy with the fbi. they have been with us at every single step of the way, and -- and we know that they will bring justice for gabby. >> can you or the family talk at all about or describe what kind of contact you had with the laundrie family since early september, and what your previous relationship was like with that family while gabby and brian were dating. >> we're not going to talk about the relationship between the

petito and schit and laundrie family. they have spoken with the fbi and they have requested we don't discuss any relationship between gabby, between brian or between the three families. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> so what will the foundation do to keep the light shining? >> we're just hoping that through our tragedy with losing gabby that in the future that some good can come out of it, that we can help other people that may be in a similar situation, reach out to these other organizations that do similar things and find out what's missing, you know. what can we do to fill that void? what can we do to help poem? just from the aware foundation

alone and reaching 2 million people, they told us that other law enforcement agencies are now starting to look back at other missing persons cases and starting to re-investigate them and look into them, and we're just hopeful that we're able to help people in the future, you know, just try to get through something similar. >> i noticed mom and dad have new tattoos that represent gabby. would you be willing to tell us about that? >> yeah. these were tattoos that gabby designed her semifinal. she was an artist. >> i wanted to have her with me all the time so i feel that this helps that. >> can you all show us? >> everybody has one. >> darn right we do. >> let it be. >> let it be. >> believe, believe. >> you say gabby designed those? >> gabby drew this one. >> here's the end all, right?

>> we need positive stuff to come from the tragedy that happened, all right? we can't let her name be taken in vain. we need -- we need positive stuff, all right, so anything that we can do to bring that up and help people, that's what we want to do. >> do you think brian is still asflif. >> i'm not going to talk about brian. >> okay. we'll ton monitor this press conference and bring you any new information that comes from interest, but let's bring in cnn legal analyst and criminal defense attorney joey jackson. we'll also go to athena who is there at that press conference shortly. joe digenovay, your reaction. there were brief remarks mostly focused on thanking investigators for helping to find gabby's remains and expressing confidence in their ongoing investigation. >> a family in mourning, ana, a family in pain, but a family reaching out and not only giving the indication to the world that this, of course, is about their daughter and they are thankful

for the law enforcement coming together but about the larger plans for future and about how they can help and assist other missing persons across the country. we know that huffily half a million people went missing last year, 600,000 the year before, and this is a problem, and i think it shows that it's really larger than that and the fbi has been extraordinary bred to law enforcement and them semifinals and other law enforcement officials and the resources they brought to bear, and we know there's one count pending to brian laundrie which pertains to the unauthorized use of the device with respect to the debit card that was gabby petito's used but overall it's important. i think for a family to get out and there and to demonstrate that they have hope for the justice to be brought and as it relates to other cased moving

forward that they can also has a measure of justice. >> we're also hearing from the family of brian laundrie today, a family introducing a statement, that they don't know where he is, that he didn't help him evade arrest. >> aprila, there's a human element to this and there heat a legal element. >> if you were going on a trip, would you support, you would be there. protect and guide per and, again, if you did, the human element would be you would do your your best and i think the public was why didn't you get

more with respect to what happened and why she isn't with you. any hauer is going to voice, ana, their client not to say aard would. how many times have we heard instances where the person was with a woman, right, come back heal. come back home. you'ving this out going to get. what happened and i think as resonated with so many people the world wants to know. we know the matter is in jent of a grant fir and team as many ill majority having to vote howl any wrongdoing. prosecuteors are presenting the case to the grand jury and i would say more fgs -- firm. >> i guess what stood out to me

on the statement from the laupd rye family is he's been missing for two weeks now, and they are just publicly saying we don't know where we is, we didn't assist in his, you know, erasing of police or jfrgs. i thought thaempings they would have spoken out syrup. if you're not part, if there's nothing that you're involved in, there's reallying in that you have to know. a when you now it, and also everyone want to noce the mel yonel dollar question, are they, did to nemp. we don't know answers to those questions kwvrpgs. in the owe vent, for example you

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house speaker nancy pelosi turning the screws on progressives in her party. in a last-minute shift last night show announced a vote on the smaller bipartisan infrastructure bill would happen thursday without any guarantees on the president's larger social safety net package so this is a reversalon a promise she made to progressives months ago, that both bills would go forward together and essentially she's now daring them to vote no and deny the president a much-needed victory so this no doubt is going to make for a make-or-break moment for the biden agenda. cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju is on the hill. where do things stand right now, manu? are the votes there?

>> it's still there. just now on a private call with the congress a.m. progressive caucus, the main progressive members in the house of representatives, they are speaking up in favor of the party -- of the caucus' strategy to block that infrastructure bill on thursday unless that larger bill, that larger social safety net package is much further along in the legislative process. some actually want to have actual bill text draft signed off on by some of the key moderates holding out like joe manchin and kirsten sinema and others want the house vote to occur on the safety net package and have that advance to the senate before they agree to the infrastructure bill on thursday, and there's virtually no chance of that happening on thursday. it's also very unlikely to see an agreement, a general agreement between those moderates like manchin and sinema and those progressives by the time of the vote that nancy pelosi has scheduled to advance that $1.2 trillion

infrastructure plan that has already been approved by the senate, now talking to progressive members earlier today. they made clear they kiss agreed with speaker pelosi's reversal to try to most issues separately. >> what's your concern with this strategy right now? >> the concern is that it is quite possible that if we call the smaller infrastructure bill and pass it that we could be hung out to dry by not passing the larger reconciliation bill, the one with all the good things that will benefit so many people across the country. >> our caucus is stronger when it's unified and decoupling these bills, it starts to pick priorities against one another and that's why i disagree with separating them. >> the frustration is they want to hear specifically on manchin and sinema in particular want because every vote is significant in the senate. up senator could break ranks on that larger package and essentially kill that package,

and today manchin and sinema were both at the white house meeting with joe biden to discuss their plans about how to deal with all this. the question though is what this very agreed on? what top line number have they agreed on. how much less do they want to spend than $3.5 trillion. that's the question that everybody on capitol hill has and no clear answers as of yet. >> and the biggest question of all is will anything get done? will either of these bills pass at all? manu raju, we know you'll stay on top of all of the little twists and turns along the way between now and thursday that looks like the key date. let's bring in the democratic congress mongonzalez of texas. congressman, first want to get your message to lawmakers in your party, people like alexandria ocasio-cortez, who right now are planning to vote no on the infrastructure bill. >> well, i certainly hope that they reconsider this. this is a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that will be transformative in our country. it will repair roads and bridges

and ports of entry and drainage problems that have been deteriorating for decades now. this is an opportunity to bring over $1 billion in resources to every single congressional district. so any member who decides to vote know on this very important infrastructure is going to have a lot to explain back in their districts, and i certainly hope people reconsider that. now, i am confident that it will pass because i think that -- the vast majority of members believe that -- believe in the importance of it, and we believe that we'll have some republican support on this bill when it comes to the floor. >> in order though to get what progressives want via the reconciliation bill, democrats need senators joe manchin and kirsten sinema on board and take a listen to what congresswoman ilhan omar said about these two democratic holdouts in the senate. >> it is saddening to see them use republican talking points. we obviously didn't envision

having republicans as part of our party and i hope that they will understand that democrats need to be united. >> is that helpful? >> well, i'm not sure if it's helpful. the democratic party is a big tent, and we have a lot of different points of view which is good for america. i think we debate things thoroughly, and there's just part of the deliberation that goes into getting the bill to the floor and getting it passes and to the president's desk. >> at such a critical time. like manchin and sinema you're a more centrist democrat unlike those two you're supporting the bigger economic package, the $3.5 trillion and as the president meets with manchin and sinema today, what does he need to say to them to get them on board with the bigger package? >> well, i think they need to agree on everything that's in

this package and also agree on the pay-fors. for example, many moderates as myself are not -- i'm not so concerned with the price tag as i am for the -- on the pay-s for. we want to make sure that any taxation is fair and just and across the board and that we don't in any way punitively tax one particular industry, for example, the oil and gas in texas. we need to make sure it's going to be fair if a and balanced. we need to pass infrastructure and reconciliation this. reconciliation bill as infrastructure is going to bring 2 million jobs to the country. it's going to improve economies across the country. it's going to give for the first time in history our seniors will have dental and hearing and vision care. for the first time in history we'll be negotiating -- medicare will be negotiating with farm south call companies to make sure that senior citizens in our country have reasonable pharmaceutical pricing and we'll

have pre-k programs, kids out of high school can now go train at a community college tuition-free for two years. these are amazing investments in -- in american -- in american society that i think are long overdue, and it's a one in a generation opportunity. we need to get this done, and i'm confident that we will. >> well, the polling shows that the majority or at least more americans are in support of both of these spending plans, so if everything krunls in the next couple of days, how will democrats explain it to voters? >> well, i'm certainly hopeful that it doesn't crumble and it's not something that we have to explain, and i'm confident that we will get it passed. it's not's because as i said there's many points of view within the democratic party, but at end of the day we're working to do what's right for the american people. we're working to get people back to work and get our infrastructure up to par.

if you travel around the world and come back to the united states, sometimes you feel that we've fallen behind to western rurp or asia or other places around the world. we need to have cutting edge first class infrastructure in this country, and this will not only create 2 million jobs while doing it, it will improve our infrastructure and bring us up to the standard that we should be, and this reconciliation is going to be so hopeful in so many areas of american society, and i'm fully confident that we will get both of them passed. >> okay. this is just part of the deliberation that goes no it on every complex bill. nothing is easy, and everyone has issues depending on who they represent, but at the end of the day every member gets over $1 billion of infrastructure funding that goes to their districts. that's going to create tens of thousands of jobs. that's going to improve conditions for the constituents in terms of drainage, roads, bridges, water reservoirs, are

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children may be a step closer to reality today. pfizer has just given the fda data on vaccine trials involving kids ages 5 to 11, burr the company is not yet seeking emergency use authorization. that is expected in the coming weeks, however. senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us, and, elizabeth, explain why pfizer would submit this data but not a request for emergency use authorization especially given the head of pfizer said just this woke that that was coming in days. >> right. this is -- there's a very specific process to this, ana. it isn't an all in one let's apply. you give some data, you wait, you give other data. there's lots of discussions which we're not privy to between

the fda and pfizer so this is not surprise. they are going to give some data. they will give more data and then they will do their official application, and from there we expect it would be weeks before the fda makes their decision. now, speaking of vaccinations, it is wonderful news that children could sometime hopefully in the coming month or two or three get vaccinated because vaccination numbers in the u.s. have not been doing so great. there aren't as many new vaccinations as anyone would like, so let's take a look at what those numbers look like. this is data that is out just now this hour from the u.s. centers for disease control. 230,000 people getting their first vaccines per day, 230 people getting vaccinated, their first doses. that sounds like a lot, but that's actually the slowest pace since january. you remember how slow it was as the rollout start. they had a 31% decline since last week, so there really needs

to be efforts to sort of get these numbers going of the right now one in four eligible americans has still not gotten even a first shot. ana? >> and we're getting new information about booster shots. tell us what you're hearing from the cdc. >> yeah. the cdc is putting out information about the side effects of booster shots because we've all wondered about that. is it the same for the physical ard second shots. what they found is they are very safe and the side effects in many of us who had the first two shots and are familiar with them really are very similar to the side effects that people felt often after their second shot so, for example, they -- the side effects were mild. they were moderate. they were things like muscle aches, fatigue, headache. of course, pain at the injection site, so all of the things that you heard about with the second shot, that's what people are feeling with the third shot, and no major problems here, just these kinds of mild side effects. ana? >> elizabeth cohen, thank you. we do have some good news

regarding new polling showing a surge in his panic and black americans getting vaccinated and cnn's senior data reporter is joining us now with what those numbers show. they are going right direction. harry. >> they are. you know, one of the problems we had earlier on in this pandemic, and as we were putting the vaccines out, there was real inequities who was taking the vaccines and what do we see in the new polling come out this month? looking at heights versus blacks and hispanics, you can see they are pretty much equal in the polling data versus april where whites were well ahead of african-americans and hispanics. i should point out that the cdc data which is incomplete but gives us another view of it also suggests that in fact we're seeing more equity in the vaccinations as black and hispanic adults are starting to catch up to white adults in how many of them are vaccinated. >> what are you seeing when it comes to vaccine mandates. how are those working out? what do the numbers show? >> this to me is interesting in so far as i've heard a lot of people saying that vaccine mandates are quote, unquote, rates of, but in fact what we

see in the data is that black and hispanic adults are actually more likely to say that they are acceptable than white adults. black and hispanic adults, majority of them say they are acceptable. the white adults, majority say they are unacceptable. overall there's a pretty large split in this country. among the people of color when it's the cnn poll or other data i've looked at is people of color are much more likely to think vaccine mandates are a good idea compared to white americans. >> and one thing if you're president you don't want to see the trust in the president's handling of this pandemic is down significantly. fill us in. >> yeah, it is down significantly. i would argue that the one reason joe biden won the election last year was because of the coronavirus pandemic and more voters trusted him than trusted then president donald trump, but what you see here is how much trust do you have in boyden to provide accurate covid-19 information? now 45% of americans say a great deal or fair amount. 53% say little or no trust.

that's a real flip from where we were in may where the clear majority of americans had a great deal or a fair amount in biden to provide accurate covid-19 fwhfgs. this is so important, ana, not just for the pandemic but his presidency overall because the pandemic is still the number one issue so if biden can't be trusted on that, then his numbers overall really won't be able to recover from the gully they are in right now. >> i always enjoy our conversations and i do want to give a shout-out to your podcast. >> hey. >> the new episode caught my attention, the big debate over daylight saving time, not savings, saving time and tell people where they can listen in. >> you can get it on itunes, basically anywhere you get your podcasts, but it's a fun time. we have so much dark news right now so, you know, this is a chance to get away and sort of talk about the more mundane but still very fascinating facets of life. >> hair, good to see you. thank you, sir. >> nice to see you. the nation's largest school district can move ahead with its

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the u.s. is condemning the latest missile test by north korea. a state department spokesman calling it a threat to north korea's neighbors and the international community. the short range missile was launched into the seas off the coast of the korean peninsula and cnn's paula hancocks is in seoul for us. paula, this is the third missile launch in just the last month. what's behind this? >> reporter: that's right, ana, yes. this was about 6:40 a.m. local time. it was a short range ballistic missile according to the joint chiefs of staff here. not one of the missiles that is

of greater concern to the region, but still one that violates united nations resolutions from the security council, and it happened just about 20, 25 minutes before the north korean representative for the united nations stood up in the general assembly and made his speech for north korea, so clearly the timing does not appear very coincidental. now, during that speech the representative said that he blamed the u.s. for antagonizing north korea saying that north korea has the right to self-defense. it has the right to test these weapons. not technically correct, of course, because it does violation u.n. security council resolutions, so the u.s. military said it doesn't pose an immediate threat to the u.s. or to its allies and personnel in the region, but it does show that north korea does have a destabilizing effect on the region, and it comes, as you say, the third missile test this

week -- this month, sorry. there had been crumbsise missil and comes after the sister that the sister of kim jong-un said she almost held an olive branch out to south korea suggesting that there could be some dialogue between north and south korea, but then you see in the united nations general assembly that they are slamming the united states calling the -- the hostile policy which they often quotas a reason for the needing to test these weapons. but it was still not particularly harsh rhetoric, and they still did leave the door open for some potential negotiation. we heard that from the state department spokesman as well saying that they still push for diplomacy with north korea. ana? >> paula hancocks, thanks for that update. coming up, gymnastics superstar simone biles saying she should have quit way before the tokyo olympic.

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another remarkably candid interview and reflecting about when it all became too much. the four-time olympic gold medallist opening up about the battles and recent loss she's faced saying she, quote, should have quit way before tokyo. andy scholes joins us now with more. andy? >> reporter: ana, fans around the world were just shocked when simone biles took herself out of several gymnastics competitions in tokyo to focus on her mental health, and now as she looks back at the entire experience, biles says she's not surprised at all at what happened. in an interview with "new york" magazine, biles said if you look at everything i've gone through the past seven years, i should have never made another olympic team. i should have quit way before tokyo when larry nassar was in the media for two years. it was too much. but i was not going to let him take something i've worked for since i was 6 years old. i wasn't going to let him take that joy away from me so i pushed past that for as long as my mind and my body would let me. now, biles revealed back in 2018

that she was sexually abused by nassar, her former team doctor. she told a congressional hearing, the gymnastics officials and fbi turned a blind eye to her and hundreds of other gymnasts abused by nassar. biles says she went to therapy as she trained for the tokyo games where she was forced out of action after experiencing a mental block known as the twisties. biles recently said she's overcome the twisties and she's on a national tour with teammates in san francisco. >> it is great to have you with us today. i'll see you back here tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. eastern. in the meantime, you can follow me on twitter @anacabrera. alisyn camerota picks up our coverage after a quick break. rapid wrinkle repair® smooths the look of fine lines in 1-week, deep wrinkles in 4. so you can kiss wrinkles goodbye! neutrogena® you have the best pizza in town and the worst wait times.

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